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Lasse Lehtinen

General Partner at Icebreaker.vc

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Overview 

Lasse Lehtinen is a General Partner at Icebreaker.vc, leading investments of up to €1M in idea-stage startups in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. With a background in digital marketing and business development, he has successfully invested in companies like Tab and Letterlife, focusing on sectors such as AI, IoT, and FinTech. Lehtinen's career highlights include his role as an investor and board member at Hoxhunt and eBrands Global, showcasing his expertise in seed capital investments and startup development, as well as his strategic leadership in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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Icebreaker.vc

  • General Partner

    2016 - Current

    Supporting +100 teams from Idea to Seed and beyond since 2017 We invest up to 1M€ first tickets in Estonia, Finland and Sweden. See our companies here: https://airtable.com/appQ5bZ5xXF33G2A5/shrSaCszlW1Z4UVfw/tblYEgViHK0mRBlE1

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Hoxhunt

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor & Board Member

    2017 - 2022

    Icebreaker.vc was the first investor in HoxHunt. We made the initial investment in 1/2017 when the company was at idea / angel-stage: https://icebreaker.vc/news/hoxhunt Other investors: - First Fellow https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/siilasmaa-sijoitti-tietoturvatekoalyyn-kyberuhat-ovat-megaluokan-bisnesta/0464cf03-d535-3bb0-a6cc-59863bd89263) - €2.5M led by Dawn Capital https://icebreaker.vc/news/yay-our-portfolio-company-hoxhunt-closes-2-5m-round) - $40M Series-B round led by Level Equity https://sifted.eu/articles/cybersecurity-hoxhunt-raises-series-b/ This was a natural point for me to step off from the board as my focus is on supporting super early stage companies.

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Cytely AB

  • Investor

    2024

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Tab

  • Investor

    2024

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eBrands Global

  • Investor & Board Member

    2021

    We acquire and grow brands that people love.

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Leyr

  • Investor

    2022

    Leyr enables healthtech start-ups to succeed in the world of fragmented medical data. We offer our unified API platform as a simple and secure way to connect to multiple Electronic Medical Records in one go.

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Truckbeat

  • Investor

    2021

    Solving the empty truck problem and saving 2.9 tons of CO2 for every 1000 pallets on the road

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LumiDB

  • Investor

    2023

    Easily store, manage and process your 3D point cloud data at scale

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Guatson

  • Investor

    2021

    Liberating LatAm micro-entrepreneurs from bureaucracy

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Letterlife

  • Investor

    2023

    On a mission to improve the lives of ADHD patients

Education 

Investments 

Tab

Pre Seed

Total funding: $2.2M

Letterlife

Pre Seed

Total funding: $750K

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